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The first permenant slaves were brought to america. After that, slavery spread throughout the colonies.
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The Declaration of Independance was the start of the build up to the civil war. There was constantly desent between different veiwpoints.
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Enterd as a slave state in 1819, shifted the balance of free states and slave states.
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The U.S, anexxed Texas during the Mexican-American war. And then Texas became a slave state.
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This group consisted of anti-slavery Whigs and Democrats in the North
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Told any northeners that they could not harbor escaped slaves, and had to send them back to their owners.
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Pro-slavery and Anti-slavery people fought against each other.
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Pro-slavery mob attacked the town of Lawrence.
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Charles Sumner was attacked by Preston with a cane in the senate after Sumner gave anti-slavery speech.
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Dred Scott, a slave brought into a free state, lost his court case about being free in the free state. He was still considerd property to his owner regardless of being in a free state.
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Jhon Brown and a small group of anti-slavery men attacked an armory to arm slaves against their masters.
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Abraham Lincoln was elected president.
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South Carolina secceded from the Union and started to form the Confederation. This started a chain reaction that led to many other southern states to seceed.
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The great Civil War that clamied many American lives started on this fatefull day.
